Mark Levin: ‘Unbridled Immigration, Legal and Illegal, Is Taking the Country Down’. * * *
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“The watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington Times

LA RAZA IS HOWLING... THEY WANT THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE EXPANDED, AND THEY WANT IT NOW!

WE SAW HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF MEXICANS MARCHING ON THIS NATION IN 2006, WAVING THEIR MEXICAN FLAGS.

AFTER ALL, THEY VOTED OBAMA IN WITH THE PROMISE OF OPEN BORDERS, AMNESTY, ENDLESS DREAM ACTS, LAWSUITS AGAINST LEGAL STATE ON BEHALF OF LA RAZA, AND NO E-VERIFY!

WHAT DO AMERICAN THINK ABOUT LA RAZA ENDORSED JERRY BROWN SIGNING A BILL TO LAW THAT MAKES IT ILLEGAL FOR EMPLOYERS TO USE E-VERIFY?

ALREADY HALF THOSE WITH A JOB IN MEXIFORNIA ARE ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS!ZAIF OBAMA IS REELECTED, IT WILL BE WITH THE VOTES OF LA RAZA ILLEGALS. HE KNOWS IT AND CAN'T HISPANDER ENOUGH!

The 33-year-old woman who police said decapitated her infant son and ate parts of his body had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and postpartum psychosis before the slaying at a North Side home this weekend, the family said Monday.Otty Sanchez confessed to killing Scott Wesley Buchholz Sanchez on Sunday with a steak knife and two swords before mutilating the corpse and eating body parts that included the brain, nose and toes, police said. She has been charged with capital murder and remained under 24-hour observation Monday at University Hospital, where she was treated for self-inflicted knife wounds.The father of the baby now is asking that she "pay the ultimate price.""She was a sweet person and I still love her, but she needs to pay the ultimate price for what she has done," said Scott W. Buchholz, who referred to his child as "baby Scotty." "She needs to be put to death for what she has done."Sanchez's relatives, however, are hoping authorities will take into consideration her history of mental illness, which included a recent diagnosis of postpartum psychosis."It's just tragic and unbelievable what happened," said Greg Garcia, Sanchez's first cousin who considers her a sister. "She was a good, hard-working person, but she had been diagnosed with schizophrenia last year."The crime happened at Sanchez's mother's home in the 300 block of Wayside Drive sometime between 1:30 and 4:30 a.m. When officers arrived about 5 a.m. to find baby Scotty's mutilated body, Sanchez quickly confessed to the macabre crime, police said."She was hysterical, screaming, 'I killed my baby. I killed my baby,'" said Police Chief William McManus.Child Protective Services officials said that Sanchez had never been investigated by the agency prior to the killing. The agency on Monday was at the home investigating conditions, because Sanchez's sister's children, ages 5 and 7, also live there.Police said the sister, the two children and Sanchez's mother were in the home at the time of the slaying. The adult women had each taken turns caring for baby Scotty at night so they could sleep in shifts. Sanchez's shift began at 1:30 p.m. Her sister discovered the baby's body about 4:30 a.m. and called police about 5 a.m.The crime scene was so disturbing that the San Antonio Police Department has provided counseling services for some officers who entered the home."Normally you don't see a scene of this magnitude in terms of the atrocity," McManus said. "When you do, it certainly leaves a lasting impression."Sanchez told detectives that she was "hearing voices" and the devil made her kill the baby boy she had given birth to June 30.The Bexar County District Attorney's Office will soon review the homicide detectives' recommended capital murder charge, which is punishable by the death penalty."You can still be prosecuted if you have some form of mental illness," said First Assistant District Attorney Cliff Herberg. "The test is if you understand the difference between right and wrong. The question is whether or not you know your act is wrong."Defense attorneys can request competency hearings to determine whether Sanchez is fit to stand trial.Dr. Lucy Puryear, a Houston psychiatrist and author, said mothers who experience postpartum psychosis often have a history of other mental disorders, but in some cases childbirth triggers the psychosis."It's usually really severe," said Puryear, who wrote the book, "Understanding Your Moods When You're Expecting."She testified as an expert witness in the case of Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children in Houston in 2001. While postpartum depression affects one in 10 mothers, Puryear said, the more severe condition of postpartum psychosis -- which includes hallucinations -- affects 1 in 1,000.Puryear said postpartum psychosis includes delusional thoughts, hallucinations and an altered state of reality."The scary thing is that the delusions are usually always about the baby," she said. "In all of the (high profile) cases, the thinking involves the babies: The mother had to kill the baby to protect it, or God has spoken to the mother and there is a mission to kill the baby or sometimes the baby is the devil who needs to be gotten rid of to save the world," she said.Relatives said Sanchez's mental health had severely deteriorated in the week before baby Scotty's death. On July 20, she moved out of the home she was living at with the baby and his father near Windcrest on the Northeast Side.That same day she checked herself into a hospital after hearing voices, but she soon checked herself out, according to a source familiar with the investigation but unauthorized to speak to the media. She then took the baby to stay at her mother's home in the 300 block of Wayside Drive.Buchholz called her every day to convince her to return to their home, to no avail."We were all trying to get her to come back," said Buchholz best friend, Matthew Maher. "She wouldn't answer her phone."She finally reappeared about 2 p.m. Saturday at Buchholz's parent's home on the Northeast Side."We were so happy to see Scotty again," said his father.She was at the home for about 15 minutes when Buchholz told Sanchez that he needed a copy of baby Scotty's birth certificate and Social Security Card. The request seemed to "set her off," Buchholz said."She grabbed the baby and just said, 'I gotta go. I gotta go. I'm out of here.'"The mother ran out of home with Scotty in a car seat. She left behind the baby's diaper bag and her purse, along with her medication. Buchholz said Sanchez threw the child's car seat -- with Scotty inside -- into the front passenger area of her car and sped away without buckling Scotty into the vehicle's front seat.His mother called 911, and a sheriff's deputy arrived to investigate the incident as a disturbance, court records show. Later on Saturday night, while Buchholz was attending the Judas Priest concert, he received a cell phone call from Sanchez."She told me she had found someone else and she never wanted to see me again," he said.Police think she killed the baby about six hours later.Sanchez and Buchholz met in 2003, while they were enrolled in the San Antonio College of Medical and Dental Assistance. The couple's volatile relationship was on and off for the past six years, but they became dedicated to making it work after learning she was pregnant last year, relatives said."She took really good care of herself during the pregnancy," said Buchholz, who also has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. "We were excited about having a baby."But Sanchez's mental health deteriorated soon after the child's birth. Her recovery was complicated by an infection, which required the use of a catheter for a week. Irritability progressed to a darker psychological state, and a postpartum depression diagnosis soon followed."She kept telling me she needed to see a counselor all the time," Buchholz.During the pregnancy and first two weeks after baby Scott's birth, the couple lived together in a rented house on the Northeast Side.The couple paid for the residence with his monthly disability checks and her job as an in-home health care provider for senior citizens. She worked until about two weeks before she gave birth. Acquaintances described Sanchez and her mother as devout Jehovah's Witnesses."They would come up to our door every so often, but I told them I was Catholic, so they left," said Elaine Calchin.Buchholz's mother, Kathleen, said she had no idea that Sanchez had been diagnosed with the same mental illness her son had. She thought that baby Scotty was the best thing that could have happened to the troubled couple.She is not sure what should happen to the baby's mother."I have mixed emotions," she said. "She needs to stay under psychiatric care. I love her. She was like a daughter. I don't want her out at this point, but that may change."

“What we're seeing is our Congress and national leadership dismantling our laws by not enforcing them. Lawlessness becomes the norm, just like Third World corruption. Illegal aliens now have more rights and privileges than Americans. If you are an illegal alien, you can drive a car without a driver's license or insurance. You may obtain medical care without paying. You may work without paying taxes. Your children enjoy free education at the expense of taxpaying Americans.”

ILLEGALS’ VOTES!

**“PUNISH OUR ENEMIES”… does that mean assault the legals of Arizona that must fend off the Mexican invasion, occupation, growing criminal and welfare state, as well as Mex Drug cartels???

OBAMA TELLS ILLEGALS “PUNISH OUR ENEMIES”Friends of ALIPAC, Each day new reports come in from across the nation that our movement is surging and more incumbents, mostly Democrats, are about to fall on Election Day. Obama's approval ratings are falling to new lows as he makes highly inappropriate statements to Spanish language audiences asking illegal alien supporters to help him "punish our enemies."

**“While the declining job market in the United States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as drug-smuggling “mules.”*As the liberal news media, far-left Democrats, and labor unions push for the “Hispanicazation” of U.S. culture, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the U.S. border has never been more secure. *HISPANDERING LA RAZA ENDORSED HILLARY BLAMES AMERICAN AGAIN FOR MEX INVASION SHE AND BILLARY HELPED CREATE!

In Mexico City, she announced that the U.S. appetite for illegal drugs and the easy acquisition of guns from the United States by Mexicans are the root causes of the Mexican crime wave. “Blame America” has become the global agenda of the Democratic Party.*NewsmaxObama's 'Hispanicazation' of AmericaMonday, January 10, 2011 08:28 AMBy: James Walsh Casting a shadow on economic recovery efforts in the United States is the cost of illegal immigration that consumes U.S. taxpayer dollars for education, healthcare, social welfare benefits, and criminal justice. Illegal aliens (or more politically correct, “undocumented immigrants”) with ties to Mexican drug cartels are contributing to death and destruction on U.S. lands along the southern border. While the declining job market in the United States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as drug-smuggling “mules.”Increasingly vicious foot soldiers of the Mexican drug cartels are taking control of U.S. lands along the border, especially since U.S. Border Patrol units have been reassigned, some to offices 60 to 80 miles inland.The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) early last year posted signs warning citizens to avoid Interstate 8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend, Ariz., because of criminal activity in the area, an area that includes protected natural areas precious to the nation. In reaction to public outrage over the signs, the BLM removed the offensive wording in October 2010, replacing it with the following: Visitor Information Update—Active Federal Law Enforcement Patrol Area. As the liberal news media, far-left Democrats, and labor unions push for the “Hispanicazation” of U.S. culture, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the U.S. border has never been more secure. Perhaps she is basing this on the reduced number of apprehensions, which result, of course, from reassigning Border Patrol agents inland.In a recent New York Times article, Nicholas Kristof criticized U.S. citizens for not speaking a foreign language and suggested that “Every child in the United States should learn Spanish.” He concluded that as the United States increasingly integrates economically with Latin America, Spanish will be crucial for the United States.For decades, the liberal left has argued that Latin America is essential for U.S. business and trade. Kristof states that Latin America “is finally getting its act together” but fails to mention the Obama administration’s $2 billion loan of U.S. taxpayer money in 2009 to Brazil’s Petrobras oil company for deep off-shore oil drilling. Obama confidant George Soros, through the Soros Fund Management LLC, until recently owned millions of dollars of Petrobras stock.Kristof suggests that one day Spanish-speaking Americans will be part of daily life in the United States and that workmen such as mechanics will be able to communicate easily with Spanish-speaking customers. He fails to explain why these customers will not be speaking English. After all, the ability to speak, read, and write English remains a requirement for U.S. citizenship.President Barack Obama gives lip service to increasing border control resources with limited funding and personnel. Many officials, including the governors of Texas and Arizona, are skeptical regarding the Obama administration’s resolve. They resent that the United States is being blamed for the killing fields on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. Border.For instance, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in March 2009, during her first official visit to Mexico, placed the blame for the Mexican drug cartels’ vicious murders on the United States. In Mexico City, she announced that the U.S. appetite for illegal drugs and the easy acquisition of guns from the United States by Mexicans are the root causes of the Mexican crime wave. “Blame America” has become the global agenda of the Democratic Party. The Obama administration’s plan to resolve the immigration chaos is to offer amnesty to all comers. President Obama re-affirms his support of a “pathway to citizenship” (amnesty) for illegal aliens in 2011. The administration, however, has announced no plans to control the influx of future waves of illegal aliens or their skyrocketing costs to the nation. The administration, which condones U.S. sanctuary cities and states, has no plans to file charges against them for violations of federal immigration law. Nor does the administration seem concerned about the environmental impact that illegal aliens have on the ecology of the United States. Many national forests, parks, monuments, wilderness areas, and wildlife refuges — once the pride of the nation — are serving today as marijuana fields for illegal alien gangs. Former Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi reportedly said to a gathering of illegal aliens in California in 2009 that U.S. immigration laws were “un-American,” suggesting that they need not be obeyed. Concerned citizens can only trust that the new speaker of the House, John Boehner, as part of congressional oversight of federal agencies, will demand enforcement of existing immigration laws.When will President Obama recognize that illegal immigration is slowing economic recovery? Can he resolve the chaos while still appeasing his Hispanic base? To maintain his populist aura, the president is in the habit of saying one thing to one audience and the opposite to another. One Obama apologist explained, “Campaign rhetoric is one thing,” suggesting that governing is another. The deliberate Hispanicazation of the United States to secure a block of votes is quite another.

WE ARE MEXICO’S WELFARE, JOBS, ANCHOR BABY BIRTHING CENTERS, AND JAILS PROGRAM. IT COST US BILLIONS EVERY YEAR. IT SAVES MEXICO BILLIONS EVERY YEAR, THEREFORE NEXT TO DRUGS, MEXICO’S BIGGEST EXPORTS ARE POVERTY, COMMON CRIMINALS, AND PREGNANT WOMEN.

THEY HOP OUR OPEN & UNDEFENDED BORDERS BY INVITATION OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, NOW A FACTION OF THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY OF LA RAZA!

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THE RICH HAVE DONE QUITE WELL OVER THE LAST THREE DECADES, AND IN PARTICULAR, UNDER BARACK OBAMA!

PROFITS FOR OBAMA’S CRIMINAL BANKSTER DONORS HAS IS GREATER FOR THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF THE OBAMA TERM, THAN DURING 8 UNDER BUSH! THERE IS A REASON WHY THE RICH ARE PUMPING THE BIG BUCKS INTO OBAMA.

THERE’S ALSO A REASON WHY OBAMA HAS HISPANDERED FOR THE ILLEGALS VOTES FROM HIS FIRST DAY IN OFFICE – HE KNOWS HE WONT PUCK REAL AMERICA WITH HIS “CHANGE” CRAP AGAIN!

THE U.S. CHAMBER of COMMERCE, A RIGHT WING FRONT FOR WALL ST. INTERESTS, DEMANDS AMNESTY, OPEN BORDERS, NO E-VERIFY.

MOST OF THE FORTUNE 500 ARE GENEROUS DONORS TO THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of AMERICA, KNOWN AS “THE RACE”… LA RAZA!

THE MEXICAN INVASION AND OCCUPATION DEPRESSES WAGES FROM $300 TO $400 BILLION PER YEAR, AND THE LA RAZA “THE RACE” MEXICAN WELFARE STATE IS EXPANDED IN EVERY STATE. IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY ALONE, WHERE HALF OF ALL JOBS GO TO ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS, THE COUNTY PAYS OUT $600 MILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS. THE TAX-FREE MEXICAN UNDERGROUND ECONOMY IS CALCULATED TO BE IN EXCESS OF $2 BILLION PER YEAR. CA HOSPITALS PAY OUT $1.3 BILLION FOR MEXICO’S “FREE” MEDICAL SYSTEM IN OUR BORDERS AS WELL. AMERICANS ARE ALSO FORCED TO PAY FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY CRIME TIDAL WAVE THAT COMES FROM LA RAZA’S OCCUPATION.

CA ATTORNEY GENERAL KAMALA HARRIS DECLARES THAT HALF OF ALL MURDERS IN CA ARE BY MEXICAN GANGS! OF THE TOP TEN MOST WANTED CRIMINALS ON HER LIST, ALL ARE MEXICANS, AS THEY WERE ON HER PREDECESSOR’S, JERRY BROWN’S,NOW GOVERNOR.

LA RAZA ENDORSED GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN, ON BEHALF OF THE LA RAZA PARTY, JUST SIGNED A BILL INTO LAW THAT MAKES IT ILLEGAL FOR EMPLOYERS TO USE E-VERIFY.

ON A REGULAR BASIS, OBAMA MEETS WITH LA RAZA AND PROMISE THEM A WAR AGAINST OUR “ENEMIES”, THE AMERICAN LEGALS! HE FUNDS MEXICAN FASCISM FROM OUR TAX DOLLARS AND HAS THE MOST LA RAZA INFESTED ADMINISTRATION IN HISTORY (see MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com). OBAMA’S SEC. OF (ILLEGAL) LABOR, HILDA SOLIS, A LA RAZA SUPREMACIST, WORKS TIRELESSLY TO KEEP LA RAZA IN OUR JOBS. SHE DOES THIS OPENLYAS THIS IS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S POLICY. OBAMA’S DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY IS NOW A WELCOME DOORMAT FOR ILLEGALS. SO MUCH FOR OBAMA’S MOUTHING OFF ABOUT “TERRORISM”. THE REAL TERRORISM IN THIS WORLD IS BY THE SAUDIS,THE PEOPLE THAT INVADED US 9-11, AND WITH WHOM OBAMA IS IN BED WITH LIKE THE BUSH FAMILY AND HILLARY BILLARY. THE REAL TERRORIST THREAT TO US ARE IS THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS THAT COME BY SEA, UNDER AND OVER OUR OPEN & UNDEFENDED BORDERS.

IT IS CALCULATED THAT FOR EVERY TEN ILLEGALS APPREHENDED, EIGHT ARE RELEASED BACK INTO OUR JOBS BY THE OBAMA’S “CATCH & RELEASE”PROGRAM.

WE CAN’T FIX OUR NATION UNTIL WE RID OURSELVES OF THE STAGGERING CORRUPTION IN OUR OWN GOVERNMENT, WHICH IS MERELY AN ANNEX OF WALL ST!

VIVA LA RAZA? YOU’RE PAYING FOR IT!

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BEFORE THIS DEPRESSION, EVERY YEAR THERE WERE 1.5 MILLION ILLEGALS CRAWL OVER OUR BORDERS AND INTO OUR JOBS. THERE WERE ALSO YEARLY 1.5 MILLION AMERICANS (LEGALS) THAT FELL INTO YEARLY!

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FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES

November 18, 2011

Older, Suburban and Struggling, ‘Near Poor’ Startle the Census

By JASON DePARLE, ROBERT GEBELOFF and SABRINA TAVERNISE

WASHINGTON — They drive cars, but seldom new ones. They earn paychecks, but not big ones. Many own homes. Most pay taxes. Half are married, and nearly half live in the suburbs. None are poor, but many describe themselves as barely scraping by.

Down but not quite out, these Americans form a diverse group sometimes called “near poor” and sometimes simply overlooked — and a new count suggests they are far more numerous than previously understood.

When the Census Bureau this month released a new measure of poverty, meant to better count disposable income, it began altering the portrait of national need. Perhaps the most startling differences between the old measure and the new involves data the government has not yet published, showing 51 million people with incomes less than 50 percent above the poverty line. That number of Americans is 76 percent higher than the official account, published in September. All told, that places 100 million people — one in three Americans — either in poverty or in the fretful zone just above it.

After a lost decade of flat wages and the worst downturn since the Great Depression, the findings can be thought of as putting numbers to the bleak national mood — quantifying the expressions of unease erupting in protests and political swings. They convey levels of economic stress sharply felt but until now hard to measure.

The Census Bureau, which published the poverty data two weeks ago, produced the analysis of those with somewhat higher income at the request of The New York Times. The size of the near-poor population took even the bureau’s number crunchers by surprise.

“These numbers are higher than we anticipated,” said Trudi J. Renwick, the bureau’s chief poverty statistician. “There are more people struggling than the official numbers show.”

Outside the bureau, skeptics of the new measure warned that the phrase “near poor” — a common term, but not one the government officially uses — may suggest more hardship than most families in this income level experience. A family of four can fall into this range, adjusted for regional living costs, with an income of up to $25,500 in rural North Dakota or $51,000 in Silicon Valley.

But most economists called the new measure better than the old, and many said the findings, while disturbing, comported with what was previously known about stagnant wages.

“It’s very consistent with everything we’ve been hearing in the last few years about families’ struggle, earnings not keeping up for the bottom half,” said Sheila Zedlewski, a researcher at the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan economic and social research group.

Patched together a half-century ago, the official poverty measure has long been seen as flawed. It ignores hundreds of billions the needy receive in food stamps, tax credits and other programs, and the similarly large sums paid in taxes, medical care and work expenses. The new method, called the Supplemental Poverty Measure, counts all those factors and adjusts for differences in the cost of living, which the official measure ignores.

The results scrambled the picture of poverty in many surprising ways. The measure shows less severe destitution, but a bit more overall poverty; fewer poor children, but more poor people over 65.

Of the 51 million who appear near poor under the fuller measure, nearly 20 percent were lifted up from poverty by benefits the official count overlooks. But more than half were pushed down from higher income levels: more than eight million by taxes, six million by medical expenses, and four million by work expenses like transportation and child care.

Demographically, they look more like “The Brady Bunch” than “The Wire.” Half live in households headed by a married couple; 49 percent live in the suburbs. Nearly half are non-Hispanic white, 18 percent are black and 26 percent are Latino.

Perhaps the most surprising finding is that 28 percent work full-time, year round. “These estimates defy the stereotypes of low-income families,” Ms. Renwick said.

Among them is Phyllis Pendleton, a social worker with Catholic Charities in Washington, who proudly displays the signs of a hard-won middle-class life. She has one BlackBerry and two cars (both Buicks from the 1990s), and a $230,000 house that she, her husband and two daughters will move into next week.

Combined, she and her husband, a janitor, make about $51,000 a year, more than 200 percent of the official poverty line. But they lose about a fifth to taxes, medical care and transportation to work — giving them a disposable income of about $40,000 a year.

Adjust the poverty threshold, as the new measure does, to $31,000 for the region’s high cost of living, and Ms. Pendleton’s income is 29 percent above the poverty line. That is to say, she is near poor.

While the phrase is new to her, the struggle it evokes is not.

“Living paycheck to paycheck,” is how she describes her survival strategy. “One bad bill will wipe you out.”

It took her three years to save $3,000 for the down payment on her house, which she got with subsidies from a nonprofit group, Capital Area Asset Builders. But even after cutting out meals at Red Lobster, movie nights and new clothes, she had to rely on government aid to get health insurance for her daughters, 11 and 13, and she is already worried about college tuition.

“I’m turning over every rock looking for scholarships,” she said. “The money’s out there, you just have to find it.”

The findings, which the Census Bureau plans to release on Monday, have already set off a contentious debate about how to describe such families: struggling, straitened, economically insecure?

Robert Rector, an analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation, rejects the phrase “near poverty,” arguing that it conjures levels of dire need like hunger and homelessness experienced by a minority even among those actually poor.

“I don’t have any objection to this measure if you use the term ‘low-income,’ ” he said. “But the emotionally charged terms ‘poor’ or ‘near poor’ clearly suggest to most people a level of material hardship that doesn’t exist. It is deliberately used to mislead people.”

Bruce Meyer, an economist at the University of Chicago, warned that the numbers are likely to mask considerable diversity. Some households, especially the elderly, may have considerable savings. (Indeed, nearly one in five of the near poor own their homes mortgage-free.) But others may be getting help with public housing and food stamps.

“I do think this is a better measure, but I wouldn’t say that 100 million people are on the edge of starvation or anything close to that,” Mr. Meyer said.

But Ms. Zedlewski said the seeming ordinariness of these families is part of the point. “There are a lot of low-income Americans struggling to make ends meet, and we don’t pay enough attention to them,” she said.

One group likely to gain attention is older Americans. By the official count, only 22 percent of the elderly are either poor or near poor. By the alternate count, the figure rises to 34 percent.

That is still less than the share among children, 39 percent, but it erases about half the gap between the economic fortunes of the young and old recorded in the official count. The likeliest explanation is high medical costs.

Another surprising finding is that only a quarter of the near poor are insured, and 42 percent have private insurance. Indeed, the cost of paying the premiums is part of the previously uncounted expenses they bear.

Belinda Sheppard’s finances have been so battered in the past year, she finds herself wondering what storm will come next. Her adult daughter lost her job and moved in. Her adult son does not have one and cannot move out.

That leaves three adults getting by on $46,000 from her daughter’s unemployment check and the money Ms. Sheppard makes for a marketing firm, placing products in grocery stores. Take out $7,000 for taxes, transportation and medical care, and they have an income of about 130 percent of the poverty line — not poor, but close.

Ms. Sheppard pays $2,000 in rent and says her employer classifies her as part time to avoid offering her health insurance, even though she works 40 hours a week. Unable to buy it on her own, she crosses her fingers and tries to stay healthy.

“I try to work as many hours as I can, but my salary, it’s not enough for everything,” she said. “I pay my bills with very small wiggle room. Or none.”

“What employers really want in many cases by hiring immigrants is to hold down wage costs, experts say.”

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THERE ARE ONLY 8 STATES WITH A POPULATION GREATER THAN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, WHERE NEARLY HALF OF ALL JOBS TO ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS. LA RAZA ENDORSED GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN JUST SIGNED A BILL TO LAW MAKING IT ILLEGAL FOR EMPLOYERS TO USE E-VERIFY.

THIS SAME COUNTY PAYS OUT $600 MILLION IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, AND HAS A TAX-FREE MEXICAN UNDERGROUND ECONOMY CALCULATED TO BE IN EXCESS OF $2 BILLION.

ACCORDING TO THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, L.A. IS THE MEXICAN GANG CAPITAL OF AMERICA. 95% OF ALL ARREST WARRANTS FOR HOMICIDE ARE FOR MEXICANS.

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Joe Legal vs. Jose Illegal

Joe Legal vs. Jose Illegal

Here is an example of why hiring illegal aliens is not economically productive for the State of California...

You have 2 families..."Joe Legal" and "Jose Illegal". Both families have 2 parents, 2 children and live in California.

"Joe Legal" works in construction, has a Social Security Number, and makes $25.00 per hour with payroll taxes deducted...."Jose Illegal" also works in construction, has "NO" Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash "under the table".

Joe Legal...$25.00 per hour x 40 hours $1000.00 per week, $52,000 per year Now take 30% away for state and federal tax

Joe Legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work.

Jose Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.

Joe Legal's and Jose Illegal's children both attend the same school. Joe Legal pays for his children's lunches while Jose Illegal's children get a government sponsored lunch.

Jose Illegal's children have an after school ESL program. Joe Legal's children go home. Joe Legal and Jose Illegal both enjoy the same Police and Fire Services, but Joe paid for them and Jose did not pay.

Don't vote/support any politician that supports illegal aliens... Its WAY PAST time to take a stand for America and Americans!

On Monday, June 15, the National Council of La Raza (La Raza), an open borders advocacy group, issued a statement calling upon Congress to ensure that illegal aliens are given health benefits if and when Congress considers health care reform.

La Raza's statement "strongly urge[d] President Obama and Congress to make every effort to ensure that health care reform reaches all communities" in the United States, and stressed that "one out of every three uninsured persons and roughly 40% of all uninsured children [in the United States] are Latino," and demanded "health care reform that makes coverage affordable and accessible for everyone — all families and all children."